Automate Your Trading: The Automated Trader 8/28/2008
A Small Break ...
Unlike Edward who spends part of his holiday in and around the lighthouses of Costa Brava keeping track of the Eurozone economy, I am actually going radio silent for the next week or so. As you can consequently learn by dissecting my site profile the autumn/winter semester 08/09 is to spent... Continue Reading
Submitted ByClaus Vistesen
Unlike Edward who spends part of his holiday in and around the lighthouses of Costa Brava keeping track of the Eurozone economy, I am actually going radio silent for the next week or so. As you can consequently learn by dissecting my site profile the autumn/winter semester 08/09 is to spent...
Submitted ByMichael Pettis
I was in Shanghai for the past two days and so wasn’t able to write anything on my blog, although it doesn’t seem like a whole lot has happened recently to add to our understanding of the Chinese economy. The stock market continues to behave poorly, with the SSE Composite dropping 2.6% on...
Submitted ByTim Price
“Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free...
Submitted ByClaus Vistesen
Like I said in my weekend thematic summary I have been working on a country analysis/outlook for Chile. Now, why the heck am I writing about Chile now, you might ask. Clearly, some are already busy telling me to shut up all together, or to stop saying stuff about economies and regions of which,...
Submitted ByMichael Pettis
The Olympics are finally over, and with a spectacular ending that reportedly had Jimmy Page performing “Whole Lotta Love”. I didn’t see the performance – I was in a park just south of the Olympic Stadium with three friends, trying to get a glimpse of the fireworks – but I am...
Submitted ByClaus Vistesen
I am pretty much up to my ears at the moment with, of all things, a country outlook/analysis on Chile. This means that I have not exactly had time to do my usual tour of the recent economic data from the Eurozone and Eastern Europe. I hope to redeem myself at a later point next week. Meanwhile I...
Submitted ByTim Price
“Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.” – George Burns. Something rather odd happens when you finish reading Roger Lowenstein’s “While America Aged” (Penguin, 2008). You come to realise that the Wall Street Journal...
Submitted ByMichael Pettis
Yesterday for the first time I attended the Bird’s nest and the Olympic complex. It is beautifully designed, well laid out, and very easy to maneuver. I hope that they leave everything open after the Olympics, although it is hard to know what kind of events can draw the kinds of...
Submitted ByEdward Hugh
by Edward Hugh: BarcelonaIs the first zone wide recession in the short history of the eurozone about to be registered? Certainly the flash PMI estimates for August give the impression that it might. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc's composite index came in at 48 after 47.8 reading in July. Any...
Submitted ByMichael Pettis
The stock market had its best day in a long time, with the SSE Composite rising 7.6% on the day to close at 2522. Most of the run-up came in the morning, and several financial sector firms, which were the best performers, had to stop trading when they hit their 10% price-change limit,...